From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261245AbVFBTEB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:04:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261247AbVFBTEB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:04:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:29828 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261245AbVFBTD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:03:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:03:50 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: YhLu Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc5 is broken in nvidia Ck804 Opteron MB/with dual cor e dual way Message-ID: <20050602190350.GD18775@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , YhLu , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C94314230A403970@TYANWEB> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C94314230A403970@TYANWEB> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:56:25AM -0700, YhLu wrote: > Really?, smp_num_siblings is global variable and initially is set 1. Why shouldn't it be ? It would only make sense to make it non-global if we supported a configuration where different CPUs had different numbers of siblings, which we don't. (And I'm fairly sure that AMD/Intel don't/won't either) Dave